This week, we celebrate Amy King, our 2015 WNBA Award Winner. Today, we share the second video in Amy’s three-part entitled “What I Do.” Want to support Amy? You can follow her on Twitter at @amyhappens or visit her website, amyking.wordpress.com. To make sure you don’t miss the third installment in…
This week, we celebrate poet Amy King. She is the 2015 Women’s National Book Association Award Winner. Her award will be presented at the National Meeting in New Orleans on Saturday, June 5th. We thought our readers would enjoy Amy’s three-part video series: “What I Do.” Today, we’ve posted Part…
by Rachel Weiss-Feldman New York City is ripe with literary-related events, many of which are free of charge. Panels and events about blogging, political scandals, award-winning young writers, Japanese-American history, and more. Don’t stay home—go out and read, hear, and talk about books! Check out a selection of this month’s…
Like bees to honey, writers swarmed the Lilian Vernon Creative Writers House to attend a panel on Exploring the Intersection of Literary and Commercial Fiction held on March 27, 2015. Cosponsored by the WNBA-NYC and the NYU, Creative Writing Program, both Harriet Shenkman (WNBA-NYC) and Joanna Yas, Reading and Special…
Dear WNBA Community, What a wonderful feeling it is to see the sun shining after such an endless winter in New York! And, even though it was a long season, the NYC Chapter of the WNBA was busy with an impressive series of events. The Spring 2015 season started with…
by Melissa A. Rosati I’m beyond excited to moderate Thursday’s book marketing event (April 23rd) at the Wix Lounge. First, the title says it all: You Wrote It, Now You Have to SELL It! Second, thanks to WNBA member Jessica Napp, we have an outstanding panel of marketing, sales, and…
by Rachel Weiss-Feldman April is National Poetry Month! In its honor, I invite all to meet new WNBA-NYC member Bracha Nechama Bomze. Her debut book-length poem Love Justice came out in March from 3RingPress. It depicts the streams of culture, ancestry, and politics that fed the river of her 31-year love…
Spring is here and New York City is ripe with literary-related events, many of which are free of charge. From Open Mics and literary magazines, to poetry, to zombies. Don’t stay home, there is too much to do. Go out and read, hear, and talk, about books! Check out a…
by Marilyn Berkman The WNBA New York City Chapter’s 6th Annual Query Roulette was held at the Union Square offices of the American Association of Publishers on March 3, 2015. Fiction and nonfiction writers who braved the icy winter weather were rewarded with the opportunity to meet with a number…
By Celine Keating, WNBA-NYC Member and Author of Layla and Play for Me “The Intersection of Literary and Commercial Fiction,” the inspired title of the upcoming March 27th event hosted by the Women’s National Book Association – NYC Chapter and New York University (NYU), is the brainchild of board member…
